Many delicious species in Thailand, “the Great Power nation of fruit,” require laborious peeling and careful chewing. Then there’s the sticky fingers and occasional disappointment.

Fiction by Franz Kafka: “Did he suppose I could fix in a couple of hours what two people had done wrong over the course of their entire lives?”

How ego graphs can help you learn about AI, play chess, eat healthier, buy a dog and find love

Automating PeopleSoft data entry with Selenium. Contribute to tbensky/selenium-peoplesoft development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here’s a thread of 10 strongly held opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”: 1. The most successful and ambitious mapping project of all time, Google Maps, is an advertising platform. There is no “geospatial industry,” only industries with…

Zoom is the Skype of video - it turned a technology few people used much into a mass-market product. But next we’ll get the equivalents of Instagram and Snap - products that ask different questions. Zoom solved getting into a call, but why are you in the…

[EDIT 2/13/21: This post is originally from June 2020, but there’s been renewed interest in it because the NYT article involved just came out. This post says the NYT was going to write a posi…

IHP is a modern batteries-included Web Framework, built on top of Haskell and Nix.

26 CLI tools that I love. And one that is OK.

The In-Group Contrarian is an essential figure for understanding social media dynamics.

So you’re writing Rust but it’s not fast enough?Even though you’re using cargo build --release?Here’s some small things you can do to increase the runtime speed of a Rust project– practically without changing any code!

Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "Rust's Huge Compilation Units" here.

High performance computing is now at a point in its existence where to be the number one, you need very powerful, very efficient hardware, lots of it, and lots of capability to deploy it. Deploying a single rack of servers to total a couple of thousand cores…

Prosecutors have arrested the former head of German payment services provider Wirecard on suspicion of accounting fraud and market manipulation. Braun's bail has been set at €5 million.

This past weekend, a small Russian town in the Arctic Circle hit a scorching temperature, 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

CERN has approved plans to build a $23 billion super-collider 100 km in diameter (62 miles) that would make the current 27 km 16 teraelectron volt (TeV) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) look tiny in comparison.

The greatest epic poem in the English language, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, has divided critics – but its influence on English literature is second only to Shakespeare’s.